Advanced International School: Novel gauge theories and their dynamics
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Elli Pomoni from DESY, Hamburg will give 9 two-hour lectures on the topic.
The topics that will be covered are:
1 The Landscape of supersymmetric theories in 4D
2 Moduli space of supersymmetric vacua
3 Seiberg Witten theory
4 Brane constructions
5 S-duality and 2D modular invariance
6 Pestun Localization
7 Nekrasov instanton partition functions
8 2D CFT, Liouville (Toda)
9 The AGT correspondence
The detailed schedule of classrooms is as follows:
Monday 2 October: 12:00-14:00 Seminar Room of the 1st floor
Tuesday 3 October 13:00-15:00 Seminar Room of the 1st floor
Wednesday 4 October: 12:00-14:00 Seminar Room of the 1st floor
Thursday 5 October: 14:00-16:00 Seminar Room of the 1st floor
Friday 6 October: 10:00-12:00 Seminar Room of the 1st floor
Monday 9 October: 12:00-14:00 Seminar Room of the 1st floor
Tuesday 10 October: 13:00-15:00 Seminar Room of the 1st floor
Wednesday 11 October: 12:00-14:00 Seminar Room of the 1st floor
Friday 13 October 10:00-12:00 Seminar Room of the 1st floor
Suggested pre-reading:
J. Wess and J. Bagger: "Supersymmetry and Supergravity".
J. Lykken: "Introduction to Supersymmetry", hep-th/9612114
A. Bilal: "Duality in N=2 SUSY SU(2) Yang-Mills Theory: A pedagogical introduction to the work of Seiberg and Witten", hep-th/9601007
A. Giveon and D. Kutasov: "Brane Dynamics and Gauge Theory", hep-th/9802067.
S. Ribault: "Conformal field theory on the plane", arXiv:1406.4290
Di Francesco, P. Mathieu and D. Senechal : "The yellow book: Conformal Field Theory ".
Y. Tachikawa: "N=2 supersymmetric dynamics for pedestrians", arXiv:1312.2684
Y. Tachikawa: "A brief review of the 2d/4d correspondences", arXiv:1608.02964